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I guess the obvious question is what is your budget? There are lots of software packages out there to derive optimum delivery schedules and routes, which presumably all the large logistics and delivery companies use. The issue is that most of them cost money - they're more than just an app for your phone. A quick google search threw up https://www.upperinc.com/blog/best-delivery-route-planner-app/#:~:text=Some prominent delivery route planner,%2C RouteXL%2C and Speedy Route. which seems to give some of the pros and cons of each package, albeit the cost information is given in dollars.

There still is. If there are multiple intermediate points, then it won't give you the optimum order for these - it just assumes that you want to visit them in the order that you add them.

Phil, Okay - I'll update the post and get the webmaster to update the website as well.

Having never attended any school in Edinburgh, I'm not sure which ones are 'right' and 'wrong'. Hopefully not too many consider GWC to be the 'wrong' school.

Yes, I understand that there were model railway exhibitions at George Herriot's many years ago but I don't think George Watson's College has been used before. I hope our prospective customers don't go to the wrong venue!!!😭

That's what I was thinking, although dismissed is as not quite fitting. That movement would be: Platform 1 to Junction (unit 1) Junction to Platform 2 Platform 1 to Junction (unit 2) Junction to Platform 2 The units would then be in a different order. However, what's shown is: Platform 1 to Junction Junction to Platform 1 Platform 1 to Junction Junction to Platform 2 However, looking at these two sequences, the only difference is the second line. Effectively lines 2 and 3 appear as the same entry in Realtime Trains (an arrival and departure), and presumably Realtime Trains can only display one platform where we effectively have two trains using the same head code. It therefore looks like Realtime Trains is displaying the departing platform. I'd therefore agree that this is probably the most likely operational reason.

What I don't understand is why it starts from Platform 1 and goes back to Platform 1 before ending up at Platform 2. I initially wondered if it was a refuelling turn based on the booked times, but clearly the actual times indicate that's not the case. I also wondered if it was to swap the order or the units (ie so that the same unit as was leading on the way into Fort William from Mallaig, was also leading on the journey south from Fort William despite the reversal at Fort William), but again, that doesn't look likely from the timings and would require the first move to be back to Platform 2. However, what I find even more interesting is the actual timings for the 12 April, because in this instance, the unit terminates in Platform 2 at 19:42 - 8 minutes before the Caledonian Sleeper left Platform 2 at 19:50. This doesn't make sense as the terminating 5Y58 would have blocked the departing 1B01. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:FTW/2024-04-12/1955?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

First press article about the show. https://www.midlothianview.com/news/midlothian-modeller-exhibiting-in-edinburgh

Well that's a bit more than I was hoping for. I suspect that in a lot of cases Rapido won't have that much detail and the livery as modelled may be based on a single photograph taken in 19xx. When the livery first came into service or was replaced isn't necessarily relevant to painting a model, so I wouldn't expect Rapido to research that, but information that says 'based on a photograph from circa 19xx' would be useful - especially for those of us who don't possess a vast library of PO wagons books. That's really useful, as it at least rules out one of the retailer specific models I was looking at as being 'too modern'. Thankfully none of the ones I've pre-ordered from the main range and still to collect from my local retailer are so marked. That doesn't mean they're definitely right for my period, but it's a start.

You could always invest in a Peco track gauge SL336 - https://peco-uk.com/products/6-way-gauge?variant=7435677499426 The Amazon website (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peco-SL-336-6ft-Way-Gauge/dp/B002QVNAQC) gives the track centre to centre dimensions as 18+9=27mm for streamline and 26+9=37mm for set track spacing. The absolute minimum you could probably get away with would therefore be ~135mm (~5.3'').

There is one on E-bay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166710557351 Looks like most retailers have sold out from a quick Google search.

Yes, the wagons were around from 1907, but that doesn't mean that the liveries that Rapido have applied date from that period. Some are Edwardian period liveries, but others seem to definitely be post-Grouping. I just can't tell which are which.

Can anyone advise which of these are in pre-grouping liveries?

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Does anyone know if this model of the Forth Bridge in T Gauge still exists?